Like Microsoft, EA, facebook, twitter, reddit right? With the amount of corporate death nerds within their bubble have been predicting, there would be no evil corporations. and yet, here we are.
Stop overestimating when your intuition tells you what's a death knell.
Not that it was awesome to begin with, just a stepping stone to get people away from WhatsApp.
People can use Signal, XMPP, Telegram and also whatsapp depending on their privacy requirements. Modern smartphones are capable like that.
I used to use scp to transfer files off of remote servers 20 years ago. You don't see me recommending it every time dropbox gets mentioned. Cool down with self-agrandizing bs.